Olá!

Está online a crítica a Minta & The Brook Trout publicada na edição de Outubro da BLITZ, aqui.

Aproveito para agradecer a todos os que têm passado por aqui.

Até breve,

Francisca

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Hi!

BLITZ magazine posted their review of Minta & The Brook Trout, which had been published on its October number.
Here's a translation, for those of you who have yet to learn Portuguese. :)

By the way, thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Francisca

«Minta: Minta & The Brook Trout. 4/5

Crackling Folk Music

Francisca Cortesao, a Portuguese girl born in the noble city of Oporto and who’s been living in Lisbon for the past ten years, when she led the now long gone band Casino, found the name “Minta” in the pages of a novel by Virginia Woolf. She chose it for her solo venture because of its ambiguity, and she has released two fables by this dreamy character since: You, the 2008 EP and Minta & The Brook Trout, the first album, in which she finds herself surrounded by a band that is particularly well suited to build a nest for unpretentious and detail and melody ridden folk songs. The influences are there (Cat Power, Laura Veirs, Aimee Mann) but, guided by Francisca Cortesao’s warm and driven voice, great songs like “Large Amounts”, “I Don’t Want To” or “On Lust” display a personality which is their own, and make for one of the best Portuguese albums of the Year.

Lia Pereira, BLITZ, October 2009»